Comments on: Palau Agrees to Take the Uighurs, Who Never Thought They’d Be on a Boat http://washingtonindependent.com/46297/palau-agrees-to-take-the-uighurs National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: facebook123 http://washingtonindependent.com/46297/palau-agrees-to-take-the-uighurs/comment-page-1#comment-298912 facebook123 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:09:16 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46297#comment-298912 <strong>Gems form the internet...</strong> [...]very few websites that happen to be detailed below, from our point of view are undoubtedly well worth checking out[...]…... Gems form the internet…

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]]> By: Danny Li http://washingtonindependent.com/46297/palau-agrees-to-take-the-uighurs/comment-page-1#comment-63149 Danny Li Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:50:03 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46297#comment-63149 An excellent expose of the sordid collusion between Palau and the various USA regimes can be found at the June 30, 2009 issue of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, p. 24. In it, reporter Ed Rampell details the history of USA's 14 forced versions of "democratic elections"(until an exhausted Paluan electorate finally agreed to eliminate the no-nukes provisions in its constitution, so that USA planes and warships would not have to disclose their possession of nukes while in Palauan territory). Please read it and weep, but when you recover, forward the article far and wide to expose the dirty politics in the latest Gitmo detainees episode. Peace & Aloha. An excellent expose of the sordid collusion between Palau and the various USA regimes can be found at the June 30, 2009 issue of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, p. 24. In it, reporter Ed Rampell details the history of USA's 14 forced versions of “democratic elections”(until an exhausted Paluan electorate finally agreed to eliminate the no-nukes provisions in its constitution, so that USA planes and warships would not have to disclose their possession of nukes while in Palauan territory). Please read it and weep, but when you recover, forward the article far and wide to expose the dirty politics in the latest Gitmo detainees episode. Peace & Aloha.

]]> By: Uighur Problem - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com http://washingtonindependent.com/46297/palau-agrees-to-take-the-uighurs/comment-page-1#comment-33250 Uighur Problem - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:41:33 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=46297#comment-33250 [...] “And so ends a demagoguery-laced vignette from the Age of Terrorism,” writes Spencer Ackerman today of the deal to send most or all of the 17 Uighur detainees — “whom the Bush administration no longer considered enemy combatants” — from Guantanamo to the Pacfic island nation Palau. Having no basis under which to detain the Uighurs, and being prevented from sending them back to China where they’d likely be tortured, both the Bush and the Obama administrations had little idea what to do with the Uighurs. Some in the Uighur community in Northern Virginia initially agreed to take in the detainees, but that proposal met loud objections from Republican members of Congress — joined by fearful Virgina Democratic politicians like Sen. Jim Webb — who transmogrified the freeing of the Uighurs into an imaginary Obama administration plot to have Khalid Shaikh Mohammed rent the foreclosed house in your exurban cul-de-sac. [...] [...] “And so ends a demagoguery-laced vignette from the Age of Terrorism,” writes Spencer Ackerman today of the deal to send most or all of the 17 Uighur detainees — “whom the Bush administration no longer considered enemy combatants” — from Guantanamo to the Pacfic island nation Palau. Having no basis under which to detain the Uighurs, and being prevented from sending them back to China where they’d likely be tortured, both the Bush and the Obama administrations had little idea what to do with the Uighurs. Some in the Uighur community in Northern Virginia initially agreed to take in the detainees, but that proposal met loud objections from Republican members of Congress — joined by fearful Virgina Democratic politicians like Sen. Jim Webb — who transmogrified the freeing of the Uighurs into an imaginary Obama administration plot to have Khalid Shaikh Mohammed rent the foreclosed house in your exurban cul-de-sac. [...]

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